1) I vote for the taking of the 6th Cavalry Division from Budennyy for the Wrangel front;

2) for the reinforcement of Budennyy's Cavalry Army with those 3-4 thousand sabers that the Commander-in-Chief promises to the South (urgently);

+ 4) intensified taking of horses from the Belarusian peasants for replenishing Budennyy's cavalry;

5) for the replacement of Gittis with comrade Frunze immediately (see the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief and Tukachevsky).

Lenin

1920

* This phrase, signature, and the words "for the Politburo Krestinsky" were written by V. I. Lenin after receiving the consent of members of the Politburo of the CC RCP(b). Ed.

Written in August, not earlier than the 20th

First printed in 1959

in the Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript